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Fat Content Per Energy Drink 0g, Body Fat Gain Per Energy Drink 18g! Human Trial Confirms: +1kg of Body Fat in 4 Weeks From Less than 2x Energy Drinks per Day!

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Image 1 (NYC Dept. of Health & Mental Hygiene): The words on this poster from a 2009 campaign in the NY subway must be taken literally! There is a reason for me to always begin my "dietary advice" with the statement "there is NO WAY that you ever again drink any soft, energy drinks or fruit juices on a daily basis". And though I would not have needed a study to confirm skipping, lemonade, coke & co is one of the simplest, for many people yet not easiest steps to a healthier and leaner physique, I must admit that I was pretty surprised how rapid both your health and body composition deteriorate, once you reintroduce this junk into your diet. +1kg of pure body fat in 4 weeks, that was the amount of weight the 11 healthy men and women in a recently published study by scientists from the UK, Italy and the US gained within just 4 weeks in the course of which they drank on average two more or less tasty Lucozade Energy drinks per day (Sartor. 2012). Fat co...

Biotin Ameliorates Skeletal Muscle Insulin Resistance in Model of Type II Diabetes. Increase in GLUT-4 Expression Yet not Accompanied by Translocation to Cell-Membrane

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Image 1: Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima fatty rats (OLETF, right) have the genetical disposition to become type II diabetics. Are your nails brittle? Is your hair falling out? No? Then, are you obese or insulin resistant? Yes? ... I guess, by know you are asking yourselves what your hair and nails have to do with your pre-diabetic beer-belly. Well, according to the recently published restults from a study by Yuka Saki and his Japanese colleagues, biotin, the water-soluble nutrient that has been discovered by Bateman in 1916 and is also known as vitamin B7, vitamin H or coenzyme R could well be the missing link. After all, the well-known, but often misunderstood micronutrient plays a central role in both fatty acid, as well as glucose metabolism and is by no means just a "hair & nails" vitamin. Biotin could help even if "it's in your genes" ;-) The Japanese researchers used the infamous Otsuka Long-Evans Tokushima fatty rats whose name already implies t...

Taurine Mimics Effects of Insulin, Annihilates Appetite and Quadruples Hypothalamic mTOR Activity in Rodent Study.

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Image 1: Bought in bulk, taurine is one of the cheapest amino acids on the market. If you listened to the third installment of the Amino Acids for Super Humans Series on Carl Lenore's Super Human Radio , you will know that I am a firm a believer in the power of the non-essential sulfur-amino acid taurine . You would have heard me talk about it's beneficial effects on diabetes, hepatic health, weight management and more .... a recent study ( Solon. 2011 ) published in the influential journal Amino Acids does not only confirm all the beneficial effects, we already knew about, it also expands our current knowledge about taurine to its effects on the hypothalamic Akt/FOXO1, JAK2/STAT3 and mTOR/AMPK/ACC signaling cascades and the satiety signal neuropeptide Y (NPY). Carina S. Solon and her colleagues from the University of Campinas in Brazil hypothesized that "some of the activity of taurine in the control of body fat would be exerted through direct action...
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